Chapter 7
New Future timeline
It was the next day. They had just heard it in the news - News they had been waiting for. The Androids had shown up again.
They were just attacking a small settlement of refugees, people who had fled from their terror, not far away from the town they had destroyed the day before.
"Then let us go," Trunks said.
A half minute later he, his younger self and Gohan were up in the air.
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What they were greeted with a short time later was exactly the sight they had expected.
17 and 18 were just standing in the middle of the place and shooting fleeing people at random.
Trunks was once again reminded of the difference between the Androids in this world and the other. He thought back to his conversations with Eighteen. Another voice inside him told him not to hesitate and do what he had to do.
There was also another memory that crossed his mind... one that had unsettled him in more than one way.
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After the defeat of Black and Zamasu, he and Eighteen had agreed to a small sparring match.
What then happened had shocked him to the core. They had started it low with Trunks being in base-form against a visibly relaxed 18. After a few exchanged blows however they started to turn more serious. He transformed into SSj and started to power up even more.
The outcome simply shocked him. She was holding herself against him in his SS2 form. After all his fights against Black. And after he got a grip on using God Ki, thanks to his training with his Father and Son Goku.
Sure, he was not at 100% of his SS2 strength… but neither was she by the look of it. And if he actually went all out in this form, he would be taking a bet that the Android would be able to hold herself too.
How? That was all what was going through his mind back then.
Eighteen had explained to him that she had trained together with her husband during the last years.
And that was all? he had asked her.
Okay - he could have easily beaten her if he used SS Rage, he was sure. But that was exactly the point, he should not even needed it.
He still had the advantage of having trained two years in the Room of Spirit and Time, while 18 had not. He had seen far more battles and had been practically fighting non-stop for the last year. And he was using god-damn God Ki. Still not very experienced, but he was using it.
So how in the world had she improved this much, living a peaceful life and training with Krillin?
For a moment he nearly felt a feeling of fear coming up inside him. Could the Androids from his timeline had been just as strong? Was the only reason that he ever even had a chance against his enemies that they had simply been too lazy or too arrogant to train?
They had ended the sparring match at that point. 18 had just been standing before him, smiling at him friendly.
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Here, in the presence, he was watching the other 18, who was in this moment right before him, blasting defenseless people who were fleeing for their lives… and who was obviously just as weak as he remembered her.
No - in this moment he truly could not see them as the same person.
Trunks had made up his mind. In his own timeline he had given these two one chance to give up and change their ways. And so he would do it here. One last chance. But deep down he already knew that they would not take it. (Just like the last time.)
This Version of 17 and 18 might not even deserve it. But... neither did his father back then as he had been given this chance.
The Androids were just taking aim at another couple of innocent people, as Gohan interrupted them by firing a small ki blast into the ground right in front of them.
The two were looking upwards to them, right before the three saiyans landed in front of them.
Both 17 and 18 looked in visible surprise from Trunks to his younger self and back.
"Well - this is a surprise," Seventeen finally said. "Two of you? Trunks - that was your name, right? And this one seems a lot older."
"Are you some lost relative? " Eighteen asked sarcastically. "Have you actually invited time-travel? Or are you just experimenting with clones?"
"It is the seconnd one actually," Trunks replied. "I am Trunks - son of Vegeta and Bulma. My mother has successfuly created a time-machine. I come from a time where you are long gone. I have become more powerful than you can even imagine.
I have killed you before and I can do it again. I give you two one and only one chance - give up and stop this once and for all."
17 and 18 exchanged a short look and then grinned.
"Nice bluff Trunks," Seventeen retorted. "But if you have truly defeated us in your future, why are you here? As if someone like you could ever surpass us."
"Is it not more like that - if you truly came back - you did it because you couldn´t beat us in the future and you thought you have a better chance here, where you can team up with your weakling of a master?" Eighteen asked him sardonically.
Trunks surpressed a growl.
"Come on, just admit it Trunks," she said to him with a pseudo warm tone and at the same time took aim at another innocent person, an old man, and fired.
Trunks moved. He did not even bother to transform into SSj. He just suddenly appeared right between 18 and her target and swatted the blast aside.
"Really?" he asked back.
Before the female Android could even react, he appeared right in front of 18 and landed a hard punch in her face that send her crashing straight through the building behind her.
"Still think I am bluffing?" Trunks asked.
With a shout of anger 17 raised both his arms, to send a concentrated blast at the saiyan. But once again Trunks was simply too fast.
Before 17 could fire, he had kicked him into the stomach and the Android sank to his knees, spitting up blood.
"As I said - one chance. This ends now. You realize that I am not even transformed?" Trunks stated.
Gohan and the younger Trunks were meanwhile watching the fight in astonishment. They could not believe how easily he was handling their two terrible opponents and that without even becoming a SSJ.
"You!" Seventeen growled and send him a look that showed nothing but hate and rage and maybe insanity.
The Android attacked him once more. A split-second later 18 came flying from the ther side. They both were sending ki blasts at him, that were however not causing any damage at all.
Trunks now finally transformed into SSj. And he responded with another `light´ punch and kick that send the two Androids flying hundreds of meters backwards and into the air.
Both 17 and 18 were starring down at him disbelieving and enraged. They were now looking visibly disleveled. Their clothes ripped and they had visibly bruises and injuries.
They were both floating over hundred meters above the ground and about three hundred apart from each other. With Trunks standing down on the ground between them.
"That´s impossible," Eighteen growled.
"No - I will... I will not accept this," 17 said quietly. "You will not win."
No - he would not accept this, he thought. Being upstaged like that by some insignificant little saiyan boy. From the future or not. They had been the masters of this world for 13 years. They were the ones who decided over life and death.
His body was shaking in anger and rage. He had never felt like this - weak, small, meaningless. They would not accept being weaker than anyone. They would not accept not - not being in control. He would destroy him for this, no matter how.
He send a silent but intense look filled by pure hatred over to Eighteen. Who mirrored his glare in the same way.
Who did this pathetic saiyan thought he was?
"This world belongs to us?" she called out, "and everyone on it. Do you hear me?" she shouted. "And before we leave it to you…" she said in a much quieter tone.
She started to charge up a blast in her hand, with 17 in the opposite direction doing the same thing.
Trunks realized instantly what they were attempting. Damn it.
He could not read their powerlevels, but from the time they used to charge up alone he knew that both their blasts were strong enough to blow up the planet. Instead of giving up, they rather tried to destroy the world and take everyone with them.
He could have killed them right away, he knew. If he had been serious from the beginning. Why did he hesitate? he asked himself. He knew why. Because he let his interaction with the other 18 and the sympathy he felt for her affect his judgement.
Trunks reacted, now with all the speed he had. In his movement he had transformed into SSj2. He appeared right below 17 and send up a blast on his own, that countered and completely overpowered the male Android´s and was now throwing the attack back to 17 himself.
And it left him no chance to dodge. All what was left was to watch with a shocked face as was hit and vaporized by the combined energy of his own and Trunks blasts.
A split-second later he moved to stop 18´s. He virtually simply blinked into existence right in her firing-line and just swatted her blast back into the air with his hand.
Not all what was left was Eighteen herself. He looked up to her and raised his arm.
For another short moment his eyes locked with hers. He saw her her rage, her silent hatred, her now broken pride and deep down shock and fear, what however was overshadowed by her hate…
… And he saw the contrast to the other 18. He would not give her another chance. He had given her more than enough and it had only put the world in danger.
He fired the blast from his hand. It was not that strong by his new standards, but still more than enough to wipe out an opponent from Cell´s or Dabura´s power several times over. For 18´s current level it was overkill.
He saw how her body was engulfed by his blast and disintigrated within a moment. She was gone.
Trunks knew he would most likely never see her face again. At least not as long as he was alive. It was a thought that made him at the same time happy and a bit sad, depending on which Eighteen he was thinking about.
"That was incredible," the younger Trunks said.
"You did it," Gohan told him.
Yes, he thought. But it could have been much easier, if he hadn´t given them this last chance.
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Universe 6
Goku and Vegeta were now facing the being who had introduced himself as Demigra. Both of them were in their SSB forms.
They both moved at the same time.
Goku leaped forward with his fist raised for a punch. At least it seemed so.
In the next moment however, he suddenly used Instant Transmission and appeared behind Demigra´s apparation. And fired a one handed ki blast at him. A Kamehameha would have been more effective, but would have taken more time.
Their opponent of course blocked it easily with one hand.
But Vegeta had reacted exactly as Goku had hoped for.
He had used the time to charge up a Final Flash attack and was unleashing it in this moment.
The attack hit. The incredible powerful blast actually ripped through `Demigra s´ shoulder and disintigrated it and his left arm.
It however regenerated a second later. There was no blood or burned flesh. His entire body seemed for a moment to be made out of some kind of dark grey fog, before it took solid shape again. Nearly like with Buu.
Only that even Buu seemed more consistent than this. It reminded them both all too well that this was just a manifestation.
"Not bad," Demigra commented. "Now - do we continue?"
Son Goku and Vegeta went into their fighting stance once again, before they and their phantom like opponent charged at each other.
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The people around them had gotten active as well.
Caulifla, Cabba and Kale had just recovered from their quick beatdown.
The Saiyan King had powered up too. He was a man who had also physically some ressemblance with the late King Vegeta. With a similar beard and his stern features. From his statue he was a bit smaller than Goku or Gohan.
It was more than a bit frustrating that he was currently clearly the weakest fighter on the battlefield.
On the other side, he was really excited to see the Super Saiyan transformations in action. With some luck he hoped to learn it as well very soon.
Far more important than both however was the fact that there were two very dangerous intruders on his world. His pride may be important and like every saiyan he shared their lust for battle, but the safety of the planet came first.
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And Trunks and Son Goten...
"Ah - what the hell are you doing?" Caulifla asked them.
The two of them were performing side by side a line of nearly dance-like moves, that ended with tipping their fingertips together. They looked more than a bit ridiculous.
Then however…. they watched how, with a blinding light, their two bodies fused into one… and Gotenks was standing before them in his SSj form.
"A fusion?" Cabba said.
"You can also do that without these earrings?" Caulifla exclaimed.
"It seems so," Kale said.
"I am Gotenks," the fused form of Goten and Trunks said.
And in the same moment he started to charge up an attack.
"How do you do that?" Caulifla asked.
"I don´t think this is the time for that," Cabba commented.
"Final Finish Flash," Gotenks shouted as he unleashed a large blast at their opponent named Saek - who seemed to be an Angel, but they weren´t completely sure. He however just side-stepped the attack easily.
Cabba, Kale, Caulifla and the king added their own blasts. Saek, now being bombarded by dozens of attacks at once, managed to dodge a few more shots, until the last of them hit.
Gohan joined their combined assault from a greater distance with a Kamehameha.
Already being distracted by the onslaught of smaller blasts, Saek only noticed it late, but he still managed to take a step to the side.
Gohan however had expected something like this, so that his Kamehameha slightly changed direction… and found it´s target. The blast hit Saek frontally.
But aside from looking slightly disleveled, they realized that it had done nohing to him.
The Universe 6 fighters didn´t knew it, since they didn´t knew how to read God Ki, but Gohan realized that this opponent was nearly as powerful as Whiz.
This was bad. And there was still this Demigra character himself.
He knew if they wanted to have any chance, his Father and Vegeta needed to power up.
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Goku and Vegeta were still fighting with Demigra - or at least the apparation of him.
"Really not bad," the Demon Lord admitted once again, "and I know you are not even close to your full power."
"Neither are you," Goku replied. "We know perfectly well that this is not your true body."
And still he was holding himself against both of them in SSB form. Just how much stronger was his true self?
Goku powered up even more. He was now using SSB Kaioken, then Kaioken Level two, three.
At the same time Vegeta changed into his ASSB form.
They lifted off the ground and attacked from both sides at once. This time their punches literally tore through Demigra´s fake body. Goku´s strike disintigrated his shoulder, while Vegeta´s left a large hole through his chest.
Before his body could regenerate once again however, Goku fired another Kamehameha that completely vaporized him.
Saek fell back and went at greater distance to his group of opponents.
At the same time a bodiless laughter halled over the place.
"This will be enough for the moment Saek," Demigra´s now bodiless voice announced. "We will leave now."
In the next moment Saek disappeared in a time-space portal.
"That was it?" Caulifla exclaimed surprised. "They - they just left?"
"Like they said," Goku stated, "that was just a test."
"But they will be back," Gohan said, "sooner or later."
"But you beat him this time, right?" Gotenks asked.
He would soon separated into Trunks and Goten again.
"No," Goku replied. "What we beat was only a weak copy."
In this moment someone else appeared close by.
This group consisted of Beerus brother Champa - the God of Destruction of Universe 6 - and Whis sister Vados, as well as the Tournament team-members, the assassin Hit.
"Ah - there you are," Champa said. "We had been told that you would be here. But we didn´t expect These intruders we have sensed. Especially not someone this powerful"
"Well - it seems we came just at the right moment," Vados commented. "Who were this attackers. They were very strong for sure."
"It is good to see you again Son Goku, Vegeta," Hit greeted them as well. "Can you tell us more about this new enemies?"
"It was someone named Demigra," Vegeta replied.
"And he also had a Servant with him, someone named Saek," Cabba added, "and he looked very much like an Angel."
As long as they had known her, they had never seen Vados actually unsettled. And especially nothing like the look of pure shock they saw now.
"D-Demigra - are you sure?"
"That´s what he said," Vegeta confirmed. "Why do you ask?"
"Demigra? I thought that was just a myth," Champa cried out incredulous.
"He is not," Vados responded. "In fact my father the Grand Priest had fought him a long time ago, back when the universes were still young, along with the other oldest Angels.
Lord Champa - if this is truly Demigra, we need to talk to Zeno-sama and my father as quickly as possible. And we should contact Lord Beerus and Whiz as well."
"Beerus? Do we truly need to?" Champa asked overdramatically.
"Lord Champa," Vados replied sternly, in a serious tone they have truly never heard from her before, "this is bigger than your feud with your brother. If this is truly who we think it is, then everyone in the twelve universes could be in danger - mortals, gods and even Angels alike."
"Ahm - well okay," Champa said, now suddenly sounding defensive.
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Universe 7 - Earth
Piccolo sensed the energies on the approaching space-ship as soon as it had entered the star system.
Whoever was coming was dangerous, he knew. Maybe even to him.
Not only that, the strongest of this energies had a remarcable similarity to Freeza.
Why did something like this had to happen right now?
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On board Cooler was standing close to one of the outside windows and looking down at the planet. It had made the way far quicker than it could normally have, thanks to the assistance Demigra´s Servant had given them.
"He is down the, isn´t he Salza - the strongest one?" he questioned.
"Yes," a blue skinned humanoid next to him replied.
"Good."
As the ship finally landed right on the coast of one of the neighboring islands, Piccolo was already waiting for them.
He had switched Islands just a few minutes before. He knew Seventeen would not be happy about him leaving, but it was better than turnning the wildlife-reservat into a battlefield.
A group of over a dozen Aliens of different species, all of them warriors in similar armor like the Freeza Force - only that the shoulder parts were different - was leaving the ship.
The one in the center of the group was clearly a being of the same kind as Freeza.
"Who are you?" Piccolo asked him.
The alien smiled.
"I am Cooler. Lord and commander of my own private army and eldest son of King Cold and brother of the being you know as Freeza."
Yes, he had expected something like that, Piccolo thought. The question was just, why had they never heard of this Cooler before?
Someone else was approaching. This time however not Aliens or invaders. Piccolo had already expected them.
They landed right beside him - Tien Shinhan and Yamsha.
"It seems we came just in time," Yamsha commented.
"We have sensed them coming," Tien stated. "Who is the one who looks like Freeza?"
"As it seems, this is his brother," Piccolo told them.
"Cooler," he introduced himself. "As I have heard your allies killed my Father and my brother as well… three times actually."
"And you are now here to avenge them?" Yamsha questioned.
"Certainly not. My Father had exiled me right after Freeza had been born because he thought my brother showed greater potential. And I have never even met Freeza."
"Then why…?" Tien started.
"The truth is, I just want to test myself against you."
In this moment another figure came flying down from the sky.
"Buuu...!" he called out loudly… as the fed form of Buu landed beside them.
This is already the next chapter. I have been working on a few of my other stories and will be updating them as well soon.
The next chapter will be the final of the current arc and will show more about the backstory of Demigra for this story. Remember, this is a reimagined version of Demigra, like Broly was in the movie. So there will be a few differences (like he and his followers having originally been Angels).
Also, for Mirai Trunks I go by the theory that he had picked up the use of God Ki from Goku and Vegeta during his Arc in Super and that this allowed him to reach his current strength and the SSJ Rage form.
Present timeline Eighteen´s level in the flashback have I scaled from the strength she had shown during the Tournament of Power.